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| साधनपाद,-Sādhana-Pāda, (S.-0, Ch.-2, V.-3) |
अविद्याअस्मितारागद्वेषाभिनिवेशः क्लेशाः ॥३॥ |
avidyā-asmitā-rāga-dveṣa-abhiniveśaḥ kleśāḥ ॥3॥ |
| avidya = spiritual forgetting, ignorance, veiling, nescience asmita = associated with I-ness raga = attraction or drawing to, addiction dvesha = aversion or pushing away, hatred abhinivesha = resistance to loss, fear of death of identity, desire for continuity, clinging to the life of pancha = five klesha = colored, painful, afflicted, impure; the root klish means to cause trouble; (klesha is the noun form of the adjective klishta) |
The pain-bearing obstructions are-ignorance, egoism, attachment, aversion, and clinging to life. |
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